High blood pressure: The hot drink proven to ‘significantly’ lower high blood pressure
High blood pressure is a typically asymptomatic condition whereby the force of blood pushing against your artery walls is consistently too high. Over time, this pressure can cause your arteries to restrict and narrow – a process that contributes to heart disease risk. Fortunately, high blood pressure is easily reversible if you make healthy dietary changes.
Evidence from animal and observational studies has linked green tea consumption to a reduction in high blood pressure, although results have been conflicted.
A meta-analysis published in the journal Medicine aimed to conclusively assess the effects of green tea supplementation on measures of blood pressure control.
The PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases were electronically searched from inception to August 2019 for all relevant studies.
Twenty-four trials with 1697 subjects were included in the meta-analysis.
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